Rudolf Steiner Archive & e.Lib Document

Universe, Earth and Man

In their relationship to Egyptian myths and modern civilisation

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Universe, Earth and Man

Rudolf Steiner Archive Document

Lectures Section

"Our time must not bring forth an ancient wisdom. Rather it must find a
new one, one that not only points to the present but also works
prophetically, apocalyptically, into the future." With these words Rudolf
Steiner summed up the thesis of this volume. Beginning with ancient Egypt,
the pyramids and sphinxes, and a comparison of that epoch with our own, he
leads us through the evolution of man in relation to the cosmos, the
workings of the spirits of form and much more. Through this panoramic
survey we discover how the changed conditions of human consciousness and
its path into the future call for a new wisdom.

By Rudolf Steiner

Bn/GA 105

“Our time must not bring forth an ancient wisdom. Rather it must
find a new one, one that not only points to the present but also works
prophetically, apocalyptically, into the future.” With these words
Rudolf Steiner summed up the thesis of this volume. Beginning with ancient
Egypt, the pyramids and sphinxes, and a comparison of that epoch with our
own, he leads us through the evolution of man in relation to the cosmos,
the workings of the spirits of form and much more. Through this panoramic
survey we discover how the changed conditions of human consciousness and
its path into the future call for a new wisdom.

Printed for the Members of the School of Spiritual
Science, Class I. ¶ No person is qualified to form a
judgement on the contents of this work, who has not
acquired — through the School itself or in an equivalent
manner recognized by the School — the requisite preliminary
knowledge. Other opinions will be disregarded:
the authors decline to take them as a basis for discussion.

In the Complete Edition of the works of Rudolf Steiner, the text is
published with the title:
Cosmos, Earth and Man ...,
published in German as,
Welt, Erde und Mensch, deren Wesen und Entwickelung sowie ihre
Spiegelung in dem Zusammenhang zwischen aegyptischem Mythos und
gegenwaertiger Kultur
(No. 105 in the Bibliographic Survey, 1961).
This First Edition, original translation is from shorthand reports
unrevised by the lecturer. It is published here with the kind
permission of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach,
Switzerland.